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A UNIVERSITY'S FINANCES,
Harvard’s Increase of Funds and
Decrease of Interest.
(From President Eliot’s Report.)
The twenty years since Mr. Hooper’s
administration of the treasury began,
bave been eventful and difficult years
for the University finances. On Aug.
31, 18/6, the invested funds amounted
to $3,406,653.48; on July 31, 1896, the
amount of the funds was $8,526,813.67,
and there hud also been added to the
resources of the University, land,
buildings, and collections represent-
ing several millions of dollars.
This increase of real estate, invested
capital and equipment has added very
much to the responsibilities and labors
of the treasurer; but there has been
aLother and quite different feature of
the situation which has made his
charge increasingly burdensome. In
the five years frcm 1870 to 1875 the
average rate of income from general
investments credited to the different
funds was 7.59 per cent., and in the
first year of Mr. Hooper’s administra-
tion the rate of income was 6.75 per
cent. In the five years from 1890 to
1895 the average rate of income for
general investment was 4.93 per cent.,
and the rate of income in 1895-96 was
4.73 per cent.
This great fall in the rate of in-
come on investments, which has been
not local but universal in its charac-
ter, has embarrassed many depart-
ments of the University—such for ex-
ample, as the Divinity School, Library,
Observatory, and Museum of Com-
parative Zoology—which depend chiefly
or wholly on the income of permanent
funds; and their embarrassment has
increased the anxieties of the treas-
urer.
Throughout the whole period, how-
ever, the treasurer has succceded, by
the constant exercise of vigilance and
gcod judgment, in keeping the aver-
age earnings on the University invest-
ments higher than those of many pub-
lic trust estates. The survival of old
investments has helped him to do this
with due rcgard> to the’ safey of* the
rroperty.
The amount required for the full
endowment of a professorship now, as -
compared with the amount required
44 or 80 years azo illustrates the same
difficulty in the financial management
of the University. 'To-day . $100,000 is
required for a professorship fund;
while 40 years ago $50,000 was con-
sidered a very satisfactory endow-
ment. In the early part of this cen-
tury $20,000 constituted the foundation
for the Bliot, Perkins and Smith pro-
fessorships respectively.
The amount of gifts and bequests to
the University in 1895-96 ‘was $243,-
791.05—a somewhat larger sum than
was received in 1894-95 or in 1893-94.
In the three years 1893-96, the total of
gifts and bequests was $597,741.99.
During this same period at least five
American universities, all situated
outside of New England received much
larger additions to their endowments.
I’. the primacy of Harvard University
among American institutions of edu-
- cation is to be maintained, it must
not be surpassed by any others in
material resources. The Corporation
could use the income of additional en-
dcwments to the amount of ten mil-
licns of dollars for the satisfaction of
nene but well known and urgent
wants.
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In the College Pulpit.
The following preachers will oc-
cupy the College pulpit during the
winter term:
February 7—Rev. A. H. Bradford,
D. D., of Montclair, N. J.
February 14—Rev. George Gordon,
D. D., pastor of Old South church,
Boston.
February 21—Rev. William K. Hall,
D. D., pastor of First Presbyterian
church of Newburgh, N. Y.
February 28—Rev. Alexander Mec.
IKxenzie, pastor of Shepard Memorial
church of Cambridge, Mass.
March 7—Rev. Prof. Robert
Thompson, of Philadelphia.
March 14—Rev. Chauncey W. Good-
rich, of Orange, N. J,
March 21—President M. W. Stryker,
of Hamilton College.
March 28—Rev. Henry A. Stimson,
of New York City.
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Warned Against the Eastern
: Coach.
[Caspar Whitney in Harper’s Weekly ]
It is a repellant suggestion, and yet
perfectly in accord with fact, that not
the least obstacle to wholesome, clean
eellege sport in the West is very often
the eastern coach. Too little investi-
gation is made concerning the ante-
cedents of the coach—I mean regard-
ing his character and disposition, and
not merely his football record. And
yet the quality of football the coach
is competent to teach is of immaterial
concern aS compared with the man-
ner of the teaching and the kind of
influence he is apt to exert over his
pupils. The character and disposi-
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themselves in the character and _ dis-
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wholesome methods during his football
career, the same tactics will be taught
the team in his charge. No high-
minded, clean-playing coach that I
have ever known turned out a team
playing what is generally known as
“dirty” football. No coach who as a
Player has been a resolute advocate
and exponent of wholesome college
sport has ever developed an eleven
which was unhealthful in composition
and performance.
Western faculties should scrutinize
-very carefully the previous records of
coaching candidates, and exercise ex-
treme caution in a choice. This is
particularly so when the candidates
are Eastern men, since the Eastern
football player is viewed by the Weat-
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cle, and what he says and teaches is
apt to be accepted, even tthough on
occasion it clashes with the precon-
ceived and natural ideas of fair play.
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of every ten boys are for fair play; it
is the teaching of accepted experts
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